Comments on: Supertasty, Superquick Daikon Salad

By: @breakawaycook

@breakawaycook — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:08:38 +0000

Jeff, the jicama sub is inspired, must try! Always on the lookout for ways to use more jicama….

Curt, thanks, and welcome! Definitely some similar tendencies… I use my benriner pretty much incessantly. Hate the big ugly nasty dangerous French mandolins though, guaranteed to bleed you dry in dramatic fashion! (and I mean that quite literally, not in the sense that they're expensive!)

And dear Alice — next year, freeze as many pom arils as you can before the season runs out; they freeze quite well.

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:07:55 +0000

Beautiful colors for a super tasty salad! It looks like the perfect winter salad refreshed by summery avocado. Though I'll have to wait until next fall for pomegranate…

By: Curt Stimpson

Curt Stimpson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:28:27 +0000

Excellent salad…my kind of good eats!! I make a similar one that I call Mandoline Salad. It's basically the same kind of idea…anything you can julienne with a Mandoline…Diakon, carrot, cucumber, zucchini…then garnish with anything else you may have on hand….peppers, toasted nuts, fresh herbs, heirloom tomatoes, any kind of fruit like apples, pears, satsumas, mango (and I TOTALLY agree that pomegranate is good in ANYTHING). Then dress it with whatever else you have…oils, vinegars, Asian sesame dressing, etc.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:33:39 +0000

Eric, i keep forgetting to tell you that I've made this salad three times now. It's delicious. The first two times were for dinner guests, and I wasn't sure how they'd feel about the bitterness of daikon, so I substituted jicama (look at me! I thought while doing it, I'm getting all Breakaway and everything!). The third time, I made it with daikon. Both versions are great-as I expected, the jicama was sweeter, and blended nicely with the lemon and avocados. The daikon wasn't too bitter, and held a nice contrast with the sweetness of the pomegranate arils.

Talk about an impressive, easy, and really delicious salad!

Thanks,

Jeff

By: Hippo Flambe

Hippo Flambe — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:02:58 +0000

Wow, you may have actually convinced me to take Daikon at my next Winter CSA pick up. In 3 years I have only taken them once and we ended up leaving them on the lawn for Santa's reindeer on Christmas eve. I loe expanding my food repertoire.

Thanks
Robin